Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 14/Verse 7

रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् ।

तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम् ॥१४- ७॥

rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam ।

tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam ॥14- 7॥

You must know rajas, composed of passion, arises from attachment to desire. That [rajas] fetters the embodied by attachment to action, Son of Kunti. 


rajas (neuter, accusative, singular) = rajas

rāgātmakam (neuter, accusative, singular) = composed of passion

viddhi (imperative, 2nd person, singular) = you must know

tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam (tṛṣṇā + saṅga + samudbhavam) (masculine, accusative, singular) = arises from attachment to desire

tad (pronoun, 3rd person, neuter, nominative, singular) = that it

nibadhnāti (present tense, 3rd person, singular) = it fetters 

kaunteya (masculine, vocative, singular) = Son of Kunti (epithet of Arjuna) 

karmasaṅgena (karma + saṅgena) = by attachment to action 

dehinam (masculine, accusative, singular) = the embodied 

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